Social Oscars 2014

Forget The Academy — ‘Wolf Of Wall Street’ Wins The Social Media Oscar In A Landslide

The Academy’s membership will reveal its Best Picture choice later today, but the social-media universe has already picked its Oscar favorite, and by a wide margin: The Wolf Of Wall Street. Social-media marketing and analytics company RelishMix looked at nearly 40 million data points — tweets, YouTube video reposts, Facebook shares and the like — focused on the nine Best Picture Oscar nominees and found Martin Scorsese’s three-hour ride with Leonardo DiCaprio down the darkest roads of Wall Street excess to be the clear online favorite.